Vilém Kurz

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Vilém Kurz (23 December 1872 – 25 May 1945) was a Czech pianist and piano teacher.

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Career Kurz was born in Německý Brod, Bohemia on 23 December 1873. He became a professor at the State Conservatory in Lviv and Vienna, and Prague Conservatory. His students included his daughter Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová, Rudolf Firkušný, Eduard Steuermann, Artur Rodziński, Břetislav Bakala, Pavel Štěpán, Stanislav Heller, František Maxián, Gideon Klein, Rafael Schächter, Stefania Turkewich, Ilja Hurník, and Pavel Šivic. His teaching methods were largely based on those of Theodor Leschetizky and his pupils he met during the time he taught in Lviv. Later they were further developed by his daughter, Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová. He died in Prague on 25 May 1945. Antonín Dvořák's Piano Concerto in G minor Kurz is known for his reworking of the solo part of Antonín Dvořák's Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 33, which was originally composed in 1876. For more than a decade after the concerto's first performance, it suffered from neglect and critical disdain. In his 20s, Kurz undertook a revision of the solo part, and it is this version that he frequently performed. Since that time, the original and the Kurz versions have been printed together in Otakar Šourek's critical edition of the score, one beneath the other, so that the soloist can…Citește mai mult